Melbourne City FC women have taken out the Premiership, Champions double, with a clear 4-1 win in Melbourne. As the Sydney coach, Daniel Barrett, admitted .. “They were the best team all season and they were the best team today.”

It was an energetic first period as both teams looked to make the break, but the first goal came in the 32nd minute, when Jennifer Beattie pushed home the ball from point blank range after her initial effort from a free-kick was parried into the post by Sydney ‘keeper Michelle Betos. 1-0

The first two City goals cam from free-kicks needlessly conceded by Sydney. Kim Little doubled City’s lead with a well taken free kick into the top left corner in the 55th minute that Michelle Betos could do nothing to stop. 2-0

It looked like Sydney might make a game of it when Kyah Simon reduced the deficit with a goal from the penalty spot in the 69th minute after Alanna Kennedy was fouled from a corner. 2-1

Melbourne still was in control, and with the Sydney pushing numbers forward, Lisa De Vanna broke on the counter attack in the 79th minute and squared to Beattie Goad in the area who had made a parallel run un-tracked, to tap home with the defence unable to recover. 3-1

City broke up a Sydney attack, and De Vanna beat a defender in the Sydney half and charged up to be one on one with Betos, before slipping the ball past into the net in stoppage time to wrap it up. 4-1